Hello, my name is Cris. :)

I like being nice to people on the internet and looking at cool art stuff

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  • I’d never seen column view but I just looked up pictures and man that seems like it’d be really helpful for my ADHD and poor working memory, its so easy to get lost trying to keep track of what level of nested folder you’re in.

    And it’d be so nice to just be able to jump laterally instead of navigating up and then going to a different folder

    Its a shame now I want something gnome devs will never provide. Maybe someday an independent dev will get tired and build a nice alternative. Perhaps I’ll try a different file manager and use a theme



  • Cris@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlWhere is the lie?
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    3 days ago

    In the states it also varies a lot. You have groups like the the socialist rifle association, but lots of american leftists are also anti-gun, there’s a range of views on the subject.

    I would guess its the majority of american leftists that are anti-gun, but I could certainly be mistaken








  • I’d just make a new gmail, proton mail, or tutanota address you can provide with no other connection to other stuff 🤷🏻

    The threadiverse really does have to be more guarded against spam and bad actors. The servers here are largely run by volunteers, and community projects with no full time sysadmins, fewer devs and moderators, and less fancy protections are a very appealing target for trolls and bad actors. If I remember right lemmy was actually hacked sometime early in my time using it and I think instances running a certain version went offline for a while while they tried to fix the vulnerability. And there’s a well known bad actor who periodically shows up in a thread with like 50 accounts and makes hundreds and hundreds of comments drowning everything out with angry gibberish

    Federation combined with an anonymous platform modeled after reddit makes it in some ways a lot harder to ban people. So all his accounts get banned and he just comes back.

    This is all managed by volunteers being paid donations and occasionally sponsor money. Thats part of what allows it to be independent and resilient to enshitification (combined with federation, and being self hostable, and free license open source software) but it also means we don’t have the same luxury of resources that reddit does.




  • Cris@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinus Comparison
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    8 days ago

    I think maybe we should stop short of saying we know for a fact what did or didn’t happen with her. An outside investigation does absolutely help, and hopefully if anything was wrong it has now been rectified.

    But there are lots of ways that companies can clear their names, and bringing in a company to do an investigation could either be done in good faith, or be a very effective way of cleaning up an enormous PR mess.

    I think we should be warry of making snap calls about who was factually in the right in these kinds of situations unless there’s hard evidence available to us. Often these situations are about our gut feeling of what happened, and our gut feeling isn’t objective. And getting it wrong in either direction has the potential to be enormously damaging (though in this case I believe there was no specific alleged perpetrator for the allegations like sexual harassment)

    I feel this is one of those situations where nuance and being okay with not knowing exactly what happened is important. Though perhaps you know more facts about the situation than I do, and have more concrete reason to believe it was highly exaggerated


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    Thats very fair, I vaguely recalled there was some initial handling of the issue that wasn’t great or something, and that was what I was talking about. I’m glad to hear the longer term response has been a lot better! (Assuming I’m even remembering correctly that the initial handling was crummy)

    Thank you for adding more info and context!